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Hi.
You probably heard me on the radio, talking about research from Monica Chew and Gerogios Kontaxis that explores how Firefox's Tracking Protection feature can speed up web browsing.
On Monday, Facebook announced a new experimental feature that, if enabled, will encrypt every email notification they send to you. As Leo Mirani writes at Quartz:
The new update will be of use only to the small minority of people who use encrypted email, a cumbersome system that puts off many non-technical users. But increased exposure to PGP keys via Facebook may help bring it ever so slightly more into the mainstream.
It's a small announcement, aimed at geeks, but has the potential to introduce end-to-end encryption to the masses. It's also part of a larger trends towards consumer-facing encrypted email. Last year, both Google and Yahoo announced end-to-end encryption tools for their webmail services.
If you're reading this, you probably heard me on the radio, talking about WHOIS accuracy.
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